Here’s a brilliant idea: Don’t want reporters to hear what you’re telling donors with deep pockets? Just blast them with a white noise machine while you talk. Problem solved.

That’s what apparently Hillary Clinton’s campaign is accused of doing as she spoke at a fundraiser in Denver, Colorado, on Thursday. As the former secretary of state took to the mic, her team allegedly turned on a static noise device to prevent journalists outside from being able to hear her.

Only one wrinkle in that plan. It seems those sneaky reporters came prepared with a special recording device that allows you to, well, record. Who knew?

Stan Bush, a reporter for local CBS affiliate KCNC covering the event, tweeted out video of what it sounded like when Clinton was speaking (think old TV’s showing that snowy static) and what it sounded like without the machine (what you’d expect background party noise to sound like).